Jacket Color?

[OC Richard]

With that said - One of the most common fashion mistakes I see almost every day is that everything in our outfits must now match or 'go' with our kilt.

If you build all the colors of your outfit around the colors of your kilt, the kilt is pushed to the background. It blends into everything else.

Let the kilt shine.

I use the phrase "Color coordinate" when I talk about building an outfit. You want the entire outfit to coordinate. Not match, not be the same but to look good when put next to each other.

Yes exactly.

What happens when you wear hose and/or jacket that has the same colour as one of the main colours of the kilt is that colour is visually drained out of the kilt. It interferes with the colour-harmony that the tartan has. (Well, if the tartan is a well-designed one that HAS colour harmony!)

Black and dark grey stay out of the way.

But! a mid-grey can drain most any colour out of the kilt, and overall makes the kilt look dull.

The best thing is when an accessory's colour is NOT the same as a main colour in the kilt, but shifted in hue and stronger in intensity (more saturated).

For example I've found that wearing claret/maroon and Royal Blue with Isle Of Skye looks great, making the brown and purple in the tartan "zing" or glow, due to brown being, essentially, a dull version of maroon, and blue and purple being close hues, but the Royal Blue being more intense or saturated.

But yes a charcoal grey tweed jacket is hard to beat for most situations and "goes with" any kilt without dulling it.

Then you can pick hose that bring out the tartan's colours, makes the kilt glow.

The black & white Pipe Band thing.



Matchy-matchy me: back in the 1980s, an outfit where everything is lovat or claret. I made the bag-cover and flashes to match the tie.



Nowadays with bolder colours. Note the blue hose make the purple in the kilt more intense. Now I don't want the hat, jacket, and hose to all match! (Same ghillies in both photos BTW. Just wore them yesterday.)



Same kilt with charcoal jacket and claret hose